Pub Date: January 10, 1999
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 98026449
Lexile Code: 1000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.10" H x 7.90" L x 5.20" W ( 0.75 lbs) 448 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Literary | Historical | General | Biographical and Autofiction
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Description: A literary sensation and runaway bestseller in hardcover, this brilliant debut novel offers, with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism, the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Optioned for film.
Review Quotes: "Astonishing . . . breathtaking . . . You are seduced completely." --Washington Post Book World
"Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut." --Newsweek "A story with the social vibrancy and narrative sweep of a much-loved 19th century bildungsroman. . . . This is a high-wire act. . . . Rarely has a world so closed and foreign been evoked with such natural assurance." --The New Yorker